Abstract
The Danish movie Rosa Morena (2010) tells an unusual story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a poor black Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is being cast as heteronormative and white in order to become intelligible as a parent and the bearer of liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the Brazilian birth mother who is portrayed as an unsuited parent through a colonial discourse steeped in sexualized and racialized imagery. A specific distribution of affect, where anger turns into gratefulness fixates and relegates the birth mother to a state of living dead, and thus she becomes the bearer of an unliveable kinship. This economy of life and death constructs transnational adoption as a vital event in a Foucauldian sense. In the same instance as the adoption, a white male homosexual population unfolds into life, and it targets a racialized and poor population as if already dead.
| Originalsprog | Dansk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | K og K |
| Vol/bind | 2012 |
| Udgave nummer | 113 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 119-132 |
| ISSN | 0905-6998 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2012 |
Emneord
- Det Humanistiske Fakultet
- transnational adoption
- Biopolitik
- nekropolitik
- Seksualitet
- rosa morena
- race
- queer teori
- Slægtskab
- homonormativitet
- ligestilling